Tinnumburg
| Tinnumburg | ||
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 The Tinnumburg seen from the southeast |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, Wall | |
| Place: | Tinnum | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 53 '48.7 " N , 8 ° 19' 8" E | |
| Height: | 2 m above sea level NN | |
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The Tinnumburg (on Sölring : Borig ) is an abandoned ring wall near the Tinnum district of the municipality of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein .
While the Archsum castle was destroyed and the Rantum castle is buried under dunes, it is the best preserved of the three Sylt castles. In the northwest it is bounded by a tidal stream flowing into the Wadden Sea , in the southeast by the flat marsh . Possibly the Prielstrom and the Döplem , a lake next to the castle, were navigable in the Viking Age , so that the castle had access to the sea. In the east the castle was connected to the Geest by a land bridge .
The castle was built around the birth of Christ. The ring wall has a diameter of 120 meters. The wall is up to seven meters high and has a circumference of around 440 meters. The base of the castle is about two meters above sea level. Before the marshes were dyed in 1938, the castle jutted out of the water like an island during storm surges . The castle had at least two gates (on the east and south). Perhaps it had a third gate to the west that led to a small plateau on the Döplem .
Excavations in 1870, 1948 and 1976 provided evidence that the Tinnumburg was one of the round walls built on the North Frisian islands in the early Roman Empire. The excavation results showed that this was a Germanic cult site. After lying fallow and muddy for a while, it was used again in the 8th to 10th centuries. The interior development consisted of sod wall houses . The wall visible today, which was built over the wall from the time of the birth of Christ, also dates from this time.
The same old Lembecksburg on Föhr brought comparative finds to the Tinnumburg.
literature
- Ole Harck: Archsum on Sylt: The excavations in the Roman earthworks Archsumburg, Tinnumburg and Trælbanken on the west coast of Schleswig. P. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1990, ISBN 9783805311502 .
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 p. 144
Web links
- Information about the location on sylt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Location of Tinnumburg according to Geospatial services. Protected areas in Germany. Retrieved June 23, 2013 .
- ^ J. Booysen: Description of the island of Silt. In: books.google.de. Royal Taubstummen-Institut zu Schleswig, 1828, pp. 64–65 , accessed on June 23, 2013 .
- ^ Eva Missler: Sylt, Amrum, Föhr. In: books.google.de. Baedeker, 2005, pp. 141–142 , accessed June 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Corinna Hübener: Tinnum through the ages. In: books.google.de. Books on Demand, May 13, 2011, p. 60 , accessed June 14, 2016 .
- ^ De Gruyter: Germanic religious history. In: books.google.de. Heinrich Beck, 1992, p. 130 , accessed on June 23, 2013 .